Week in Sloth

“Bet on Your Baby” on ABC

Thursday 11

“Community” (KOB-4 7 p.m.) “Community” gave up caring what audiences think about it long ago—which is what makes it such an awesome show. Tonight, for example, the entire episode is enacted by felt puppets.

“Chasing Tail” (History 8 p.m.) A reality show about deer hunting and a lame double entendre? You’re better than this, History.

Friday 12

Eve of Destruction (Reelz 6 p.m.) Reelz continues its quest to usurp the cheesy disaster movie crown from Syfy with this mini-series about a “dark energy black hole” accidentally created by eco-terrorists. Steven Weber from “Wings” is in it!

“Spartacus: War of the Damned” (Starz 7 p.m.) The blood-soaked gladiator rebellion series comes to a close. Historically speaking anyway, this doesn’t end well for old Spartacus.

“Da Vinci’s Demons” (Starz 8 p.m.) Starz’ newest historically questionable series finds hunky young supergenius Leonardo Da Vinci (Tom Riley, Return to House on Haunted Hill) sexing up the ladies and fighting crime with his incredible inventions. (No small wonder, the show is written by David S. Goyer of Batman Begins/The Dark Knight fame.)

Saturday 13

“Bet on Your Baby” (KOAT-7 7 p.m.) No! Bad television! You do not ask people to pit their toddlers against one another in a tawdry TV gameshow!

Doors Open (Ovation 8:30 p.m.) A bored millionaire (Douglas Henshall, “Primeval”) and an art professor (Stephen Fry, “Jeeves and Wooster”) plan to swap a series of priceless masterpieces with brilliant forgeries. Based on the book by Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin.

“Oh, Sit!” (KWBQ-19 7 p.m.) No, that first season of The CW’s extreme competitive musical chairs show was not a hallucination. Here comes season 2 to prove it.

“Defiance” (Syfy 7 p.m.) Those pesky aliens have taken over Earth yet again, and it’s up to some scrappy human rebels to liberate the planet. This show is described as the “first-ever convergence of TV and online gaming.” So if you’re not playing the video game, you’re only getting the half of it.

“Scam City” (Science 8 p.m.) Learn how scammers and con men rip off tourists, starting in Rio during Carnival.